THE HANDY BARQUE THE CAMPANERO

I wasn't long ashore in the town of Baltimore,
I thought I'd take a trip to Rio Janeiro;
And a Frenchman gave me the chance and likewise a month's advance
And shipped me aboard of the barque, the Campanero.

Next day I went aboard, me head it was whiskey-sore,
The crimp said, "In your bunk you'll find a square-O."
O the square-O it was small and the Cockney drank it all,
Aboard o' the handy barque, the Campanero.

Next day she went away from the moorings where she lay,
Waiting for the wind unto blow fair, O,
On the following Saturday,
O we hauled her out to sea,
And we squared away in our yacht for Rio Janeiro.

Now, the wind blew down the bay, blew all of our sails away,
And all of them we had unto repair O
For I lost me watch below,
I was on the poop to sew,
Aboard of the handy barque, the Campanero.

O the mate he was a big bluff, and he tried to hand us rough,
Says I, "Is it me you're figuring for to scare, O?"
And a great big Russian Finn,
O we handed him over to him
Aboard o' the handy barque, the Campanero.

In forty days or more, we sights Brazilian shore,
And the man in the top he said, "It's Rio Janeiro!"
O the wind it was quite free and so straight ahead went we
And we dropped our hook that night in Rio Janeiro.

Now, the mate he went ashore, and we never saw no more
The skipper sent ashore his bag-shillero;
What with the mate, the skipper, the pump, I was nearly off me chump,
Aboard o' the handy barque, the Campanero.

And now the voyage is o'er and I'm back in Baltimore,
Of all the down-east ships that I'm aware, O.
If ever more I go to sea, no more Yankee ships for me!
They may be like the barque, the Campanero.


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